Re: [cgmo-webcgm] getAppStructureById?

[Benoit Bezaire <benoit@itedo.com>]

Hi Don,

I think it could be changed... All implementations should be returning a
WebCGMAppStructure any way.

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Monday, April 17, 2006, 4:46:11 PM, you wrote:

> Lofton,

> I'm struggling with the definition of the getAppStructureById. In the spec
> it indicates that getAppStructureById returns a WebCGMNode. 

> But the examples and tests imply that it is returning a WebCGMAppStructure
> object, e.g.
>  
> http://www.w3.org/Submission/2006/SUBM-WebCGM20-20060313/WebCGM20-DOM.html#L5095
> In this example it is using pic.getAppstructure("A"); to get
> "obj" floowed by obj.setAppStructureAttr. But if "obj" is of type 
> WebCGMNode, it doesn't have a setAppStructureAttr member?

> I understand that WebCGMnode is the base of  the WebCGMAppStructure 
> interface and so inherits the attributes of WebCGMNode. But WebCGMNode
> doesn't inherit from WebCGMAppStructure. 

> So What am I missing here?

> Regards, 
> Don.